e unknown god
Should house with him, from Nineveh?"
--_Rossetti, The Burden of Nineveh_.
Unto Seventy Times Seven. 186 L.J.
"We poor ill-tempered mortals--must forgive,
Though seven times sinning threescore times and ten."
--_Holmes, Manhood_.
The Valley of the Shadow. 35 S.A.
"Drew to the valley
Named of the shadow."
--_Tennyson, Merlin and the Gleam_.
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Vine and Fig Tree 456 H.T., 369 S.A.
"You may see as thorough patriarchs as Abraham
was any day, and as carefully visited by angels,
sitting under their vine and fig tree."
--_Ruskin, Notes_.
Voice Crying in the Wilderness. 65 L.J.
"In this bleak wilderness I hear
A John the Baptist crying."
--_Lowell, An Interview with Miles Standish_.
Walking on the Waters. 148 L.J.
"So Lycidas sunk low, but mounted high
Through the dear might of Him that walked the waves."
--_Milton, Lycidas, line 172_.
The Water of Life. 508 L.J.
"The natural thirst ne'er quenched but from the well
Whereof the woman of Samaria craved."
--_Dante, Divine Comedy_.
Weaver's Beam. 386 H.T.
"Then for her spear she might have a weaver's beam."
--_Ruskin, Crown of Wild Olive_.
Weighed in the Balance. 206 T.J.
"Their errors have been weighed and found to
have been dust in the balance."
--_Shelley, A Defence of Poetry_.
We Spend Our Years as a Tale That is Told. 104 S.A.
"Ay! when life seems scattered apart,
Darkens, ends as a tale that is told,
One, we are one, O heart of my heart,
One, still one, while the world grows old."
--_Alfred Noyes, Unity_.
What is Man That Thou art Mindful of Him? 22 S.A.
"A man is but a little thing among the objects
of nature, yet, by the moral quality radiating
from his countenance, he may abolish all
considerations of magnitude, and in his manners
equal the majesty of the world."
--_Emerson, Essay on Manners_.
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When the Morning Stars Sang Together. 222 S.A.
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